Howard Miller

I was interested in what the thinkig was behind the "future" proposals to add XML/XSLT to Moodle 2.

I'm asking this having done quite a bit of *static* development using XSLT and I can't see any benefit of such an arrangement in a live environment: (a) because it will probably be slow, (b) can you rely on a PHP installation having XML support compiled in and (c) why bother anyway.

I would be happier to see an incremental evolution, probably by firstly concentrating on a move to "proper" CSS based presentation (ie, take out all the font tags etc). One has to consider though that there are still lots of people in education using Netscap 4!

We've been having a look at Smarty here (smarty.php.net) and it looks really exciting - I think this has been mooted before. May beworth another look.

As regards XML it may be worthwhile adding modules within the current structure to handle IMS and/or SCORM input and output, but even that would, I think, require enough people to demand it to make it worth all the bother - I have done some work with IMS recently and its *really* nasty! ...and that was in Java which handles XML a lot more easily than PHP does.

No not really like a survey.

We are putting together a couple of courses using Moodle. One is at Masters level, the other a taught PhD.

Here we the graded quizes are not so useful. However, we would like the facility to ask the participant a question and ask them to choice an answer from a selection. They will then receive feedback based on their answer which may direct them to additional reading or forums.

This isn't far away from what the quiz does, with the notable exception of the grading. The tutors are really negative about the grading as they feel that it would detract from the activity.

This is really a feature suggestion isn't it?? :->

Is there any way without resorting to editing the PHP code of (optionaly), not having grades in a Quiz.

We want to include some quizes where there are no "right" answers but we want to give appropriate feedback. We don't want to "judge" the student though.

Any thoughts?

Are there any moves afoot to make Moodle more CSS friendly?

In particular I find that the quiz feedback screens are hard to read. A bit of fiddling with font appearance, borders etc might well improve things but at present (unless I have missed something) that isn't straightforward to do.

One for /bugs ????

Ahhh... thanks!

And today's moral is...

"if it doesn't work try reading the instructions"